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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4589020 | TV video data input apparatus A TV video data input apparatus samples and quantizes a video signal from a TV camera and feeds the quantized data into a computer. The input apparatus is provided with means for generating sampling clocks different from each other while selectively chang... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4583203 | Memory output circuit An energy efficient output circuit for a static random access memory includes a pair of output transistors each driven by a bootstrapped driver stage. This requires less current than conventional amplifier chain.... | 04/15/1986 |
| 4575819 | Memory with RAM cells and ROM cells A memory circuit which has both RAM cells and ROM cells along a common row has a ROM cell which is directly connected to the word line for the row but which is not enabled when a logic state opposite to that represented by the ROM cell is attempted to be ... | 03/11/1986 |
| 4547867 | Multiple bit dynamic random-access memory A dynamic MOS random-access memory is described which includes a circuit for permitting checking of the on chip refresh counter. The memory also includes a refresh generator, the frequency of which automatically varies to compensate for temperature variat... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4546455 | Semiconductor device A programming circuit used with a semiconductor memory comprising normal as well as spare memory cells allows any of the normal memory cells to be replaced by a spare memory cell and includes a fuse and a MOSFET connected in series between first and secon... | 10/08/1985 |
| 4545038 | Precharged discharge sensing for EPROM An electrically programmable read-only memory including a memory array of several bits capable of storing binary data connected to an address circuit for accepting a plurality of bits that designate a selected set of the memory array bits and further conn... | 10/01/1985 |
| 4527254 | Dynamic random access memory having separated VDD pads for improved burn-in A random access memory, a method of manufacturing a random access memory, and a method of testing a random access memory in which separate operating voltage terminal pads are provided for the memory cell arrays and peripheral circuits of the memory. By pr... | 07/02/1985 |
| 4521872 | Instruction storage An instruction storage for storing microinstructions or macroinstructions is disclosed. Each instruction word includes error check and correction bits to enable error correction when an error is detected, and a plurality of instructions are assembled from... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4475180 | Non-volatile memory circuit for portable electronic devices A writable non-volatile memory circuit for use in portable electronic devices such as electronic timepiece, wherein there is improved the power consumption and there is provided a volatile memory with a serial input for writing the data into the non-volat... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4472792 | Semiconductor memory A dynamic RAM integrated circuit of the one-element memory cell type is provided with a plurality of data lines, a sense amplifier, a plurality of word lines disposed in a manner to intersect with the data lines, and memory cells disposed at the points of... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4423493 | Elastic memory with arrangement for reducing phase fluctuations in the output clock pulse An arrangement for reducing phase fluctuations in the output or reading clock pulse of elastic memories which are produced during the absence and return of the external input clock pulse. According to the invention, the writing and reading clock pulses ar... | 12/27/1983 |
| 4403310 | Fixed data reading system Disclosed is a fixed data reading system which comprises a read only memory for storing program data and fixed data, a random access memory for storing non-program data, a program counter for specifying a location of the read only memory, an incrementer f... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4387446 | Stack control system A stack control system serves for transferring information issued from an information source to an information receiving unit through a stack unit which includes a plurality of stacks for storing therein the information from the information source, the in... | 06/07/1983 |
| 4382278 | Hierarchial memory system with microcommand memory and pointer register mapping virtual CPU registers in workspace cache #4 and main memory cache A digital computer system having a plurality of working registers in at least one workspace in its main memory and having a workspace pointer register for indicating the location of the workspace also has a workspace cache memory made up of registers corr... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4357687 | Adaptive word line pull down An adaptive word line pull-down circuit steers a pull-down current only to the word being pulled down and only for the time when that word is being pulled down. The time that it takes for the bottom word line to fall controls how long the pull-down curren... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4357685 | Method of programming an electrically alterable nonvolatile memory A nonvolatile memory of the electrically alterable kind comprises an orthogonal array of cells each including a floating-gate IGFET and an enhancement IGFET in series. For the programming or the reading of a selected cell, lying at the intersection of a r... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4355412 | Preset station selecting device in a radio receiver In a radio receiver which is electrically tuned to a broadcasting frequency, a preset station selecting device having a memory, a first circuit which previously writes a broadcasting frequency into the memory when it receives a write selection and write c... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4327355 | Digital device with interconnect matrix Disclosed is a digital device on a semiconductor chip, which is comprised of a plurality of storage means for storing digital signals therein, a plurality of functional means for performing functional operations on the digital signals, and an interconnect... | 04/27/1982 |
| 4302809 | External data store memory device A device for use with a digital computer for storing standard software used by the computer and modifying the address portions of the standard software prior to transmission to the computer. The device includes a ROM package containing a ROM within which ... | 11/24/1981 |
| 4289982 | Apparatus for programming a dynamic EPROM An insulated-gate field-effect-transistor (IGFET) quasi-static decoder for programming an electronically-programmable read-only memory (EPROM) applies to the floating gate of selected memory devices a programming voltage. Prior to selection, each row and ... | 09/15/1981 |
| 4267603 | Memory control circuit A memory control circuit for controlling a write-in operation of an addressable memory circuit whereby a digital signal that is changeable over time is written into an addressed location in the memory circuit. An address register is provided for selecting... | 05/12/1981 |
| 4266284 | Systems for the handling and distributing of data System for handling and distributing of data comprising a local ordering and memorizing center connected by a common line to a plurality of peripheral user equipments, wherein said peripheral user equipments are provided each with a memory unit adapted to... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4209850 | Electronic apparatus A digital electronic apparatus is provided for allowing easy copying from a first memnory to a second memory. Said copying operation can be arbitrarily controlled from a key entry means. Said first and second memories are constructed in the form of a pack... | 06/24/1980 |
| 4200919 | Apparatus for expanding the memory of a mini-computer system Apparatus for storing information to be used by a data processing system ch employs a mini computer, where the mini computer is incapable of addressing more than a specified maximum number of discrete storage locations. The apparatus includes a plurality... | 04/29/1980 |
| 4159539 | Elastic waves device for memorizing information A device for memorizing information by means of interactions between elastic waves and electromagnetic waves. It comprises a piezoelectric substrate, at least one electromechanical transducer receiving the information to be memorized, means for exciting a... | 06/26/1979 |
| 4152778 | Digital computer memory A digital computer memory made up of a plurality of read only memory components arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. The outputs of the columns of memory components are connected to a voltage source and load resistors to provide the output terminals ... | 05/01/1979 |
| 4138738 | Self-contained relocatable memory subsystem An apparatus for use as part of a computer system's external memory for storing a subprogram used by the computer and modifying selected data words read from the apparatus prior to transmission to the computer. The apparatus includes an addressable read o... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4137563 | Circuitry for reducing power dissipation in equipment which operates in synchronism with clock pulses A minimum number of clock pulses required for keeping an electronic component in a waiting condition or state are intermittently applied to the electronic component, thereby minimizing the heat dissipation thereof. A control circuit, utilized in the inven... | 01/30/1979 |
| 4130890 | Integrated DDC memory with bitwise erase This relates to a monolithic dual-dielectric cell (DDC) memory array with a DDCFET matrix. The substrate zones of these DDCFETs are inserted into a substrate body having islands for decoder logic and potential selection integrated MISFET circuits. These c... | 12/19/1978 |
| 4114192 | Semiconductor memory device to reduce parasitic output capacitance A semiconductor memory device includes a memory circuit formed of a plurality of matrix-arranged memory cells, a plurality of output data lines, each of which is connected to memory cells arranged in the same column of the matrix memory circuit, and a plu... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4092736 | Three electrode dynamic semiconductor memory cell with coincident selection A semiconductor random access memory is described in which the datum stored in one memory cell can be recalled without having to recall, temporarily store, and then re-enter the data stored in a column of memory cells. Datum can also be entered into one m... | 05/30/1978 |
| 4086662 | Memory system with read/write control lines A memory system includes a plurality of word lines arranged in parallel in a predetermined direction, a plurality of sense lines arranged in parallel to be transverse to the word lines, and memory cells located at the intersections of both the sense lines... | 04/25/1978 |
| 4060795 | Scanning system A scanning system is disclosed in which a multiplicity of points arranged in matrix are scanned column by column in accordance with the commands issued from a central controller, which scanning system comprises a memory and a scanning controller for scann... | 11/29/1977 |
